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drawdown Meaning & Definition

What Does Drawdown Mean?

As a noun, drawdown means The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization). It can also mean The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.

Drawdown Definition (Noun)

  1. The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).

    The government initiated a drawdown of forces in the border region.

  2. The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.
  3. A lowering in water level, as in a well or a reservoir.
  4. The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  5. (A measure of) the decline from a historical peak in some economic or financial variable.
  6. The process of a bank releasing previously agreed loan amount to the borrower, hence making it available for them to use.
  7. The borrowing of funds from a financial institution, under the terms of a credit agreement.

Noun

  1. The act of reduction or depletion.
  2. The result of reduction or depletion.
  3. A change in hydraulic head in a well or other body of water.
  4. A measure of the decline from a historical peak in some variable, typically the cumulative profit or total open equity of a financial trading strategy.

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Drawdown in a Sentence

The government initiated a drawdown of forces in the border region.

Word Forms & Grammar

drawdown (countable and uncountable, plural drawdowns)

Words That Rhyme With Drawdown

Origin of Drawdown

Deverbal from draw down.

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